Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-10-01
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

"Our Country-Its Possible Future and
Its Present Crisis" by Josiah Strong, d. d
General Secretary of the Evangelical Society
for the United States. There is an intro
duction by Professor Austin Phelps, D. D.,
who at the outset says, This is a powerful
book" The leading idea of the treatise, he
says, is OF = crisis" in the destiny of this
country, and through it the destiny of the
world. DIR. Strong treats the United States
as the chosen seat of enterprise for the
worlds conversion. He believes the worlds
future is to be shaped by the Anglo Saxon
He holds that the city is of disproportion-
ate growth to the rural section, and that in
the city moral and religious influence and
government is weakest, proposition
that cannot be gainsayed. Civilization
must destroy the liquor traffic. Social
ism is at enmitY to free government;
the close OF this century is the great
focal point in his way our resources
equip us to support 100000,000 of people
a leading question is: are we to American
ize the insweeping immigration, or it is to
foreign us? Against churchly assaults the
free-schooi system must be defended.
These are the chief topics treated, and in
dictate the general character of the work.
Published by the Baker & Taylor Com
pany, No. Bond street. New York, for the
American Home Missionary Society Svo.,
222 pages. The work is in its fifty-ffth
thousand. 1t is a perfect vade-mecum of
information.
The Curio" is new candidate for favor
OF the reading public. 1t is an illustrated
quarto, issued monthly, BY r. NJ. Wright.
6 Astor Place, New York, and Elliot Stock,
London, so Paternoster Row. 1t is de
voted to -genealogy and biography, her
aldry and book plates, coins and auto
graphs, rare books and works of art, old
furniture and plate, and other colonial
relics" The September number is of so
pages, deliberately illustrated There are
note and query departments, book reviews,
library statistics, genealogical articles, pa
pers on seals and coins, bric-a- brac and
curios, ETC., and fair share of space given
to fiction, art, autographs, etc. The maya
zine is admirably printed-a model i'm its
way OF fine typography. 1t occupies q
field not heretofore claimed or taken, and
so far as we can judge by single issue,
will prove a valuable addition to the maya
zine literature of the age.
The Atlantic Monthly" for October
(Houghton, Miffiin & Co., Boston. presents
these leading articles: AN Uncloseted
Skeleton, by Lucretia P. Hale and Edwin
Lassetter Bynner; 1.-THE Wise Bluebird,"
by Olive Thorne Miller; 1.-THE Moods of
Failure" by Helen Gray Cone; "One
Hundred Days in Europe" by Oliver
Wendell Holmes; "a Second Glance
Backward" by Susan Fenimore Cooper;
Omar Khayyam," by Graham R. Tom
son The Second Son" by NJ. o. w. Oil
plant and 7. B. Aldrich; Jean Francois
Millet" Theodore Child; The Soul of the
Far East" Percival Lowell Anecdotes
of Charles Reade,' by E. H House.
cap and Bells is a small book of po-
ems by Paul Minturn Peck New York
White. Stokes 4 Allen Sacramento: C. S.
Houghton. Small 12mo.; 81. There are
eighty poems, which breathe of true poetic
spirit. There is a free-hand dash and
'brilliancy of color about them that testifes
to genius, and their originality and wit will
be denied by none who read. There is in
many OF the poems rich bumor that is
very restful and satisfying. The love SONGS
are ardent and move in passionate strain
that keeps pace with some of the best
poems of love of recent years.
From G. S. Houghton, Sacramento, we
have No. Sc September 17th), and No. 81
september 24th), of " Cassells National
Library" The first volume is The Diary
of Samuel Pepys 1866" ands 1.-The second is
Shakespeare's King Henry VIII, That
such standard works can be issued at the
low price of ten cents is surprising, but the
Library series accomplishes it, and in a
year for So places all who choose in posses
sion of 50 volumes of the best literature of
the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Cassell's Family Magazine for October
(Cassell & Co., New York and London), |
opens with a charmingly romantic frontis- |
piece, "Will He Gomez The usual serials |
appear, and likewise the ever interesting |
" Gatherer Department is varied, and full |
of novel illustrations of new inventions |
The fashion articles sanitary chapter, |
paper on locomotives, three music pages, |
breezy paper on Bristol channel, and other |
articles, make the number one of much at
tractiveness. |
THE Popular Science Monthly" for Oc- |
tober ID. Appleton e. Co., New York; has |
seventeen distinct papers. The chief are : |
Evolution. by Professor Jos. LIE Conte /; |
Social Sustenance," by Henry j Philpott; |
Strange Medicines" by Miss C. f. Cor |
Railroad Employees" by DR.. VIM. Thomp- |
son; r." The Savagery of Boyhood," by |
John Johnson, Jr, and THE Language |
of Emotions" by NJ. Alfred Fouillee
bridge Disasters in America-The Cause |
and Remedy is small octave of eighty |
nine pages by George L. Vose. Boston, |
Lee x Shepard: San Francisco, Samuel |
Carson ~ Co, 3 SaGsome street. Mr.. Nose
is author of "a Manual for Railroad Engin- |
GERS and Engineering Students" and of |
Elementary Course of Geometrical Draw |
ing v and other works of like nature.
Macmillan's Magazine" current issue |
macmillan Il Co, London and New York; |
has these papers "Amiel," by Matthew |
Arnold; With the Immortals," by +. |
Marion Crawford 1.-THE Passion of the |
PAST A City of Granite" by s. NJ. Bur
rows Miners Mistake" by F. Anstey
- The Appeasement of Demeter," by Geo. |
Meredith An Idyl of Ischia."
The Jews Since the Destruction of |
Jerusalem is from the pen of Rev. Bern
hard Pick. Phi. D., and is published by John
B. Alden. New York. 1t is brief historical |
sketch of forty seven pages, in concise and |
PhoSap EpuliSb